The New START Treaty: It’s Time for the Senate to Vote

Yes! It is high time! This treaty should have been ratified long ago. If the White House continues on its miserable record of pushing for treaty ratification during this lame duck session, this will never be ratified. Secretary Clinton, Minister Lavrov and their teams worked very hard to arrive at this treaty. It is time!

Mme. Secretary may be on the other side of the globe at the moment, but if you thought she was “removed” from the political tsunami we all knew was coming, guess again! Her beautiful hands with the perfect nail beds have a far reach. Do not misread what follows. It is an order!

The New START Treaty: It’s Time for the Senate to Vote

Bureau of Arms Control, Verification and Compliance

Fact Sheet

November 3, 2010

Treaty Makes America More Secure, Has Broad Support, and Is Urgently Needed

The New START Treaty Makes America More Secure. Significantly reducing – by nearly
700 – the limit on the number of strategic nuclear weapons that Russia can deploy;
allowing us to keep a close eye on the remaining ones; building stability, predictability,
and transparency for the two countries with 90 percent of the world’s nuclear weapons;
and strengthening America’s fight against nuclear weapons falling into the hands of
terrorists and rogue states.

Urgently Needed. Secretary of Defense Gates has said, “Since the expiration of the old
START Treaty in December 2009, the U.S. has had none of these [verification]
safeguards,” including no U.S. inspectors on the ground in Russia keeping a watchful
eye on Russia’s weapons. General Chilton, Commander of STRATCOM, stressed to
Congress, “Without New START, we would rapidly lose insight into Russian strategic
nuclear force developments and activities.”

Key Questions Have Been Answered.

.. Preserves America’s Triad of land-based and sea-based missiles and bombers
and the military’s flexibility to take on any future new threats

Unanimous Support by Military Leadership. All senior Defense Department officials
testified that they support ratification of New START. Secretary Gates stressed: “The
New START Treaty has the unanimous support of America’s military leadership – to
include the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, all of the service chiefs, and the
commander of the U.S. Strategic Command, the organization responsible for our
strategic nuclear deterrent”. Seven former commanders of Strategic Command
support the Treaty, assessing it “will enhance American national security in several
important ways.”

Prepared and Ready. The Senate has been provided extensive information – 18
hearings, dozens of briefings and meetings, answers to over 900 questions for the
record, and hundreds of pages of reports, analysis and testimony.

Me, too! Bayh is the ultimate DLC-er with insurance lobby ties. Although during the primaries there were talks among some supposedly in-the-know Hillary bloggers that, had she won the nomination, potential VPs were Wesley Clark and Bayh. Although, assuming for the sake of speculation, that Hillary is contemplating another run, from the prism of the mid-terms choosing Bayh would make sense from the outwardly political standpoint (i.e. it’s a centrist ticket, you know, not this “socialistic” president) and he represents the Midwest. But two years is a long time in politics (as Obama and the ‘bots now know), and we don’t know yet if Hillary would want to wade back in the dirty game of domestic politics after acquiring a global stateswoman status now that she’s SOS.

The lame duckers are so frightened right now that they aren’t going to vote on a single thing without ten polls first. They might do a few spite things but nothing more than that. The Democrats in the house are quaking. Many of them just made it over the re-election line. Others have been dumped because of the Pelosi-Obama-Reid forced agenda, even if they voted against the most unpopular bills.

Lots of teeth rattling right now. I don’t think they will do ANYTHING significant before Jan. 1. I could be wrong though. What the heck do I know.

This time, instead of wearing her green caftan and beheading the Al Quaida chief while letting out a war whoop, she is wearing her cherry red dress from Chelsea’s wedding and leaping from the back of one clydesdale to another performing pirouettes upon each landing! Nice!

I am a 58 yr old, African-American Republican. I changed parties after 30 years when I could not just hold my nose and vote for John Kerry.

I was planning on voting for Hillary in 08; but alas, politics prevailed. I like Evan Bayh (a pragmatic approach instead of hard-nosed in your face stuff). I would give serious thought to voting for a Hillary/Evan ticket; a Hillary/Wesley ticket – not so much; a Hillary/Sheila Jackson Lee ticket – when hell freezes over.

I like Evan too. I somehow fantacized that he abruptly decided to leave the Senate for a reason that has to do with future races. And generally, I don’t fantacize. I DO know he and Hillary are friends though. I think he saw some handwriting on the wall from Congress and got out before everything hit the fan.

The thing with Sheila is her opponent was a complete Yahoo. She didn’t even have to leave the house to beat him. I do remember how badly she got booed during the Texas caucuses, for supporting Hillary, so I always give her a pass in some small way.

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